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White Teeth: A Novel (Paperback)
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg 7
I did something crazy this year. I blew half of a freelancing check on the complete, seven-volume edition of William T. Vollmann's 3,000 page essay on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down.
A Year in Reading 2012 20
For a ninth year, some of our favorite writers, thinkers, and readers will look back, reflect, and share. Their charge was to name, from all the books they read this year, the one(s) that meant the most to them, regardless of publication date. Grouped together, these ruminations, cheers, squibs, and essays will be a chronicle of reading and good books from every era.
Lamenting the Modern: On Zadie Smith's NW 9
Smith is able to build a very solid portrait of her protagonist from bits and pieces, implying that this is how we are all fashioned by our society and that perhaps such a form is the best way to render modern experience.
Is This Book Bad, or Is It Just Me? The Anatomy of Book Reviews 35
You can critique the critics. You can be a meta-Michiko. Use this knowledge wisely.
The Books We Come Back To 59
It shows adulthood and devotedness, I think, to try and get back to a book you love, every four seasons or so. So which books do you all reread yearly, or biannually, or quadrennially, or decennially, and why?
The Story Behind the Story: An Appreciation of Authors' Acknowledgments 17
At their best, acknowledgements can be finely-wrought short stories with the author as protagonist. At least one acknowledgements has made me cry.
Dispatch from Turkey: Plagiarism Charges Levied at Award-Winning Author 17
Award-winning polyglot Turkish author Elif Şafak has been accused of plagiarism by a translator in Turkey, where her newest novel Iskender was released on August 1.
How Avant Is It? Zadie Smith, Tom McCarthy, and the Novel's Way Forward 23
Huge claims have been made on behalf of the novelist Tom McCarthy. But what do they actually tell us about "the future of fiction?"
Adam Levin's The Instructions and the Cult of the Child 8
Why so much genius? Why now?
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Recommended Reading for Transient Lives 5
By way of starting a conversation about the ideal marriage of text and transportation, we've asked our contributors and readers to make reading recommendations for Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
Best of the Millennium, Pros Versus Readers 83
Our distinguished panel selected 20 incredible books as their Best of the Millennium (So Far). What were our readers' favorites from the decade now coming to a close?
Ask a Book Question: #74 (Just One Book) 32
If you could read just one novel, what would it be?